ALEOTTI, Giov.. - Born in 1546, died in Ferrara in 1636. An architect and treatise writer (he wrote on hydraulics), he carried on his activity in the service of Alfonso II d'Este and of Clement VIII, in Ferrara and in Parma, leaving there his major work in the Palladian Teatro Farnese. The church of S. Carlo in Ferrara is a typical document of his manner, filled with Venetian-Palladian elements resolved, however, into a heaviness of plastic masses that cancels all their original meaning. Together with G. B. Magnani he provided the design for the church of S. Maria del Quartiere in Parma; the churches of S. Margherita and S. Barbara in Ferrara are attributed to him.

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BIBL.: Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 252-53; L. N. Cittadella, Memorie intorno alla vita e alle opere dell'arch. G. B. A., Ferrara 1847; A. Ricci, Storia dell'architettura, III, Modena 1860, pp. 617-18; A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte, XI, III, Milano 1940, pp. 930, 935, 963-65.

Maria Vittoria Brugnoli

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